Horsten

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inscription

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/horsten] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: " Historische St. Mauritius-Kirche in Horsten, Landkreis Wittmund, Ostfriesland"

Image Source: digital photograph 21 April 2009 by Frisia Orientalis [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ChurchHorsten.JPG] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: the top of the font cover is discernible at the far [east] end, right [south] side, semi-hidden by the right bank of benches

Image Source: digital photograph 6 August 2007 by Dennis Wubs [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:4721991_Horsten.jpg] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Das reich verzierte Taufbecken wurde 1696 der Kirche gestiftet."

Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/horsten] [accessed 22 February 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 23776HOR

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische St.-Mauritius-Kirche

Church Patron Saints: St. Maurice [aka Maur, Mauritius, Moritz, Morris]

Church Location: Kirchstraße 2, Horsten, 26446 Friedeburg, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Ostfriesland, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located off (S) road 436, in the municipality and 6-7 km E of Friedeburg, about 20 km SW of Wilhelmshaven

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1696

Century and Period: 17th century(late), Post-Reformation

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it

Church Notes: previous wooden churches ca. 1000 AD; brick church built on granite base early-13thC; damaged 14thC and Thirty Years' War, with whole inventory destroyed;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The entry for Horsten in the Evangelische-Lutherische Kirchenkreis Harlingerland [https://www.kirchenkreis-harlingerland.de/gemeinden/horsten] [accessed 22 February 2022] notes and illustrates a baptismal font made of wood, a gift of 1696 [="Das reich verzierte Taufbecken wurde 1696 der Kirche gestiftet."]. The inscription, which includes the date of the donation, is painted on the side of the font cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.452487, 7.942042

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 27′ 8.95″ N, 7° 56′ 31.35″ E

UTM: 32U 429746 5923129

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: German

Inscription Notes: full transcription of the painted inscription not available

Inscription Location: the inscription is painted on the sides of the font cover

Inscription Text: "[...] EHRE ANNO 1696 [...]"

Inscription Source: ImagesArea

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1696

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal moulded with scroll ribs and turned finial; inscription painted on the sides